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We take drinks on that balcony (verbena tea for
me) and watch the sun lower itself from a swirly pink sky and sizzle out into the sea...
From
under the rubble, one Hatian peers out and moans, “It was almost worth having an earthquake to meet all you wonderful
folks from Israel.”
From God BlissNEW: Tell him the
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Hi all - welcome to my site!
I
created these pages as a resource for those studying the peace movement in Israel, particularly the women's peace movement.
It includes many of my email reports since 1988 ("Dispatches from the Peace Front"), as well as a book telling
the early history of Women in Black in Israel.
When we do get to peace between
Israel and our Arab neighbors, women peace activists will deserve a special place in history.
Gila Svirsky
Jerusalem
P.S. See my grandtwins on A Tad About Me. _______________________________________
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| "My father was deputy head of the Mossad..." - Omer Goldman |
All were 18 when they made the hard choice: Say no to war and occupation, or say yes
to prison. Meet some of the "shministim" - Israeli high school seniors who are willing to sit in prison for their
beliefs. 18-year old heroes _________________________________
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| Luisa Morgantini on the Women in Black vigil, 28 Dec 2007. Photo: Dani Lagarto Fernandez |
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| Naomi Morag on the Women in Black vigil, 28 Dec 2007. Photo: Vera Reider |
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| Ala Shainskaya: No to War! [Russian], Olmert - Enough! [Hebrew], August 2006. Photo: Jacob Katriel |
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| "Partnership begins with coexistence, not with walls. Molly Malekar at A-Ram. Photo: Dalit Baum |
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| Khulood Badawi "under arrest" at a demonstration 24 June 2004 |
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| Yana Knopova at an anti-war vigil during the Lebanon War 2006 |
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Bulletin Board
Newest: Motherhood and proper childrearing have always been at the heart of the Zionist effort. Jewish-Israeli Women under Militarization: How Dark is the Shadow of Security? by Miriam L. Bennett-Houlton
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♣ Newer:
"My heart has been broken
so many times, writes Alice Walker somewhere, that it feels like an open suitcase with the wind blowing through it…" Shiv'a in Gaza by Deb Reich.
♣ ♣ ♣ New: "The
refusal to recognize our existence has served the propaganda machine of Israel well, especially in times of war..." Hannah
Safran on The Israeli Resistance.
♣ ♣ ♣ New: "I was not present in Rafah that terrible day, but I have frequently replayed in
my mind the events leading up to the moment when a bulldozer rolled over her..." In Memory of Rachel Corrie, six years after her death in Gaza, age 23. ♣ ♣ ♣ "Even if Livni will not become prime minister, the 2009 elections proved that the
combination of women and peace is a winning one; that male and female voters alike wanted a woman to take the reigns..."
Daphna Golan-Agnon looks at The Failure of the (Male) Left ♣ ♣ ♣ "The state of Israel condemns and vilifies the voice of the Jewish mother, which
is the voice of compassion, tolerance, and dialogue..." Nurit Peled-Elhanan, "In the State of Israel, the Jewish Mother is Disappearing" ♣ ♣ ♣ "Security
once meant something much broader than its military definition. Sometimes it’s hard to remember
that older use of 'security', but efforts to revive it have been made in recent years. It is called
'human security' and includes areas of activity such as..." Desperately Seeking Security
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"The day of Jess’s conversion was also the day that Israel began its pitiless
bombing of Lebanon and nearly three weeks into Israel’s violent assault on Gaza…" A Jewish Plea by Sara Roy
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"When half the population is not represented at the table where the fate of humanity
is at stake, we cannot expect to sustain peace agreements..." Cora Weiss, "Women, Peace, and Stability" ♣ ♣
♣ "I am working for the day when millions of people will show up and dismantle the
checkpoints with their own hands and that’s that, finished..." Yehudit Kirstein-Keshet, On Founding MachsomWatch ♣ ♣
♣ Although the information has not yet reached the international media, we would like the
world to know that women in Israel and Palestine are ready to make peace.... A joint Palestinian-Israeli statement for peace
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Photo of me (upper left corner of the pages) by Peter Liatowitsch. Thanks,
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On Happiness: His few friends
had told him he could never buy it, but Mr Crawley surmised that they just didn't know where the store was. Gary
Larson
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